Details
An unusual set of Indian metamorphose pictures
painted in bodycolour on mica showing various male and female trades, the interchangeable face and landscape painted on card, and six separate figures of indoor servants - 4¼in. X 3in. 11cm. X 3.5cm. unframed
painted in bodycolour on mica showing various male and female trades, the interchangeable face and landscape painted on card, and six separate figures of indoor servants - 4¼in. X 3in. 11cm. X 3.5cm. unframed
Provenance
This set belonged to The Reverend Sholto Friell Pemberton, who was chaplain in the service of the East India Company in Bombay. He died at sea in 1846 and a copy of his probate certificate is sold with this lot. He was a great great grandson of John Frost, the chartist,